2012 National Geographic Photography Contest winners

January 7, 2013 |By VANESSA HO

Winning photo of tigress nets $10,000 grand prize

Eric Guth

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Honorable mention: "East of Iceland"

Photographer: Eric Guth

Location: East of Jökulsárlón lagoon, on Iceland's eastern coast.

Guth: "Glacial ice washes ashore after calving off the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier on Iceland's eastern coast. During the waning light of summer, this image was created over the course of a four-minute exposure, while the photographer backlit the grounded glacial ice with a headlamp for two of those four minutes."

Eric Guth

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Honorable mention: "East of Iceland"

Photographer: Eric Guth

Location: East of Jökulsárlón lagoon, on Iceland's eastern coast.

Guth: "Glacial ice washes ashore after calving off the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier on Iceland's eastern coast. During the waning light of summer, this image was created over the course of a four-minute exposure, while the photographer backlit the grounded glacial ice with a headlamp for two of those four minutes."